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Recent Examples of cranium
But with only a partial cranium, there wasn’t much to go on.
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Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
2 Jan. 2026
The other two craniums were found in 1990.
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Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
26 Dec. 2025
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
Of course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums.
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Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
2 Jan. 2026
The other two craniums were found in 1990.
—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
26 Dec. 2025
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
Of course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums.
—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cranium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranium
skull
Noun
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Breakfast browse Twins Mercy and Goodness were born with their skulls fused together.
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The experience was not entirely dissimilar to getting whacked in the skull.
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“Cranium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cranium. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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